In this week's Monday Morning Memo Podcast, passing Trade Promotion Authority is about economic freedom -- the freedom to buy and sell and compete around the world with as little of government interference as possible. The House also passed another ObamaCare repeal bill, because America doesn’t increase access to affordable health care by taxing pacemakers, artificial joints, heart valves and MRI machines.
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Veterans Affairs officials are hoping to further expand the almost-completed new VA clinic off of South Loop 336 in Conroe. Lawrence Steward, health systems specialist for the VA’s DeBakey Medical Center in Houston, wants to add an extra 5,000 square feet for sleep studies and dental treatment at the facility, located at 690 Loop 336 S., which is scheduled to open late this summer. “We have a lot of patients that have trouble with breathing or with their good sleep,” Steward said. “So we want to...
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As Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, I introduced H.R. 1479, the Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoggle Act.The legislation repeals the "Bay State Boondoggle," a sweetheart deal included in ObamaCare that is taking hundreds of millions of dollars each year from hospitals around the country and giving it to hospitals in Massachusetts (MA).
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The second portion of the debate, controlled by the Committee on Ways and Means, was led by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, who accused the Democrats of being "scared" when they enacted Obamacare without any meaningful proceedings in the House.
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“Real working-class Americans have seen their hours cut and paychecks shrink since ObamaCare redefined full-time as 30 hours instead of the traditional 40 hour work week. The Save American Workers Act reverses one of the worst provisions of ObamaCare and gives many Americans the opportunity to bring more money home. Until we can fully repeal ObamaCare, I’m going to keep working to dismantle it, piece by piece.”
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Washington, DC – After being sworn in as the 114th Congress, members of the U.S. House of Representatives went directly to work, passing the Hire More Heroes Act. “I've never been more excited to be a member of Congress and our first day back is a great example of why the next two years will be different," said Texas Congressman Kevin Brady, Chairman of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee. "The first thing we did was pass the Hire More Heroes Act, which circumvents a harmful ObamaCare rule and ...
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"This is all about a unified Republican Congress challenging the President' s immigration amnesty early next year on our turf, under our rules. This gives us a much better shot at ending it,"
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ICMYI: Yesterday, I joined Farmers for Free Trade at the #Rally4USMCA with my colleagues from both parties to urge Congress to pass the USMCA, ASAP!
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